Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Bachir Hadj Ali

بشير حاج علي

Algeria

1920 – 1991 (70 years old)

Visionary Algerian communist leader, poet, and musicologist whose profound studies on Algerian Andalusian and Chaabi music preserved national heritage, while his poems documented the agony of political torture.

Algiers, Algeria

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Arts & Music

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Mohamed Khadda

محمد خدة

Algeria

1930 – 1991 (61 years old)

Pioneering visual artist and theorist regarded as a foundational father of contemporary non-figurative art in Algeria, famous for infusing Arabic calligraphy and Berber motifs into lyric abstraction.

Algiers, Algeria

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Arts & Music

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Mohammed Abdel Wahab

محمد عبد الوهاب

Egypt

1902 – 1991 (89 years old)

Legendary Egyptian composer, singer, and oud virtuoso whose innovative fusion of classical Arabic music with Western orchestration shaped modern Arab culture.

Cairo, Egypt

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Politics

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Richard Hatfield

Disco Dick

Canada

9 April 1931 – 26 April 1991 (60 years old)

Flamboyant and culturally visionary New Brunswick premier whose 17-year leadership enacted the Canadian Charter's official bilingualism protections for Acadians.

Hartland, Canada

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Science

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Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Arthur Granit

Finland

1900-10-30 – 1991-03-12 (90 years old)

Eminent Finland-Swedish neurophysiologist awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye.

Korpo, Finland

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Sciences & Discovery

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John Bardeen

John Bardeen

United States

1908 – 1991 (82 years old)

Only person to win two Nobel Prizes in Physics, co-inventing the transistor and explaining superconductivity (BCS theory).

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Arts & Music

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Hafidh al-Droubi

حافظ الدروبي

Iraq

1914 – 23 January 1991 (77 years old)

Pioneering modern Iraqi painter who introduced cubist and expressionist interpretations of Baghdadi street life and founded the Impressionists Group.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Literature & Poetry

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Northrop Frye

Herman Northrop Frye

Canada

1912 – 1991 (78 years old)

Internationally renowned literary theorist at Victoria College whose 1957 masterpiece Anatomy of Criticism revolutionized structuralist literary theory, and who coined the concept of the 'garrison mentality'.

Toronto, Canada

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Politics

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King Olav V

Alexander Edward Christian Frederik

Great Britain

1903-07-02 – 1991-01-17 (87 years old)

Beloved King of Norway from 1957 to 1991, Olympic sailing champion, and decorated wartime military leader affectionately known as Folkekongen ('The People's King').

Oslo, Norway

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Politics

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Salah Khalaf

صلاح خلف / أبو إياد

Palestine

31 August 1933 – 14 January 1991 (57 years old)

Key founding leader and chief strategist of Fatah and the PLO, author of the political autobiography 'My Home, My Land' (Filastini Bila Huwiyyah).

Tunis, Tunisia

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Arts & Music

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Cheikh Ahmed Zaytouni

أحمد الزيتوني

Morocco

1905 – 1991 (86 years old)

Pillar of northern Moroccan Andalusian music, long-time director of the Tetouan Conservatory of Music and leader of the Northern Regional Andalusian Orchestra.

Tetouan, Morocco

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Art

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Harold Town

Harold Town

Canada

13 June 1924 – 27 December 1990 (66 years old)

Flamboyant and virtuosic Canadian painter, printmaker, and polemicist who co-founded Painters Eleven and invented the single-autographic print technique.

Toronto, Canada

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Tunku Abdul Rahman

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah

Malaysia

1903 – 1990 (87 years old)

Founding Father and first Prime Minister of Malaysia known as 'Bapa Kemerdekaan' (Father of Independence) who led the peaceful transition to sovereignty in 1957.

Langgar (Kedah), Malaysia

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Arts & Music

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Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland

United States

1900 – 1990 (90 years old)

'Dean of American Composers' celebrated for Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man, and Rodeo.

Lenox, Massachusetts, United States

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Arts & Music

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Hedi Jouini

الهادي الجويني

Tunisia

November 1, 1909 – November 30, 1990 (81 years old)

Legendary Tunisian singer, oud virtuoso, and composer often heralded as the father of modern Tunisian popular song, whose vast repertoire bridged Andalusian malouf melodies with flamenco, tango, and modern chanson.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Literature & Poetry

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Sadok Mazigh

الصادق مازيغ

Tunisia

1906 AD – 1990 (84 years old)

Distinguished man of letters and poet who produced one of the most celebrated and stylistically elegant French translations of the Holy Quran, published in two monumental volumes.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Arts & Music

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Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri)

كلثوم (عائشة عجوري)

Algeria

1916 – 1990 (74 years old)

Pioneering doyenne of Algerian dramatic theater discovered by Mahieddine Bachtarzi in 1935, whose silent maternal anguish in 'Le Vent des Aurès' won acclaim at Cannes.

Algiers, Algeria

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Literature & Poetry

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Hugh MacLennan

John Hugh MacLennan

Canada

1907 – 1990 (83 years old)

Quintessential Canadian novelist whose 1945 masterpiece Two Solitudes defined the historic cultural divide between English and French Canada and who won five Governor General's Awards for fiction and non-fiction.

Montreal (Quebec), Canada

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